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Feb. 7, 1933. E DONNELLAN 1,896,394

COIN GUIDING AND WRAPPER HOLDING MEANS FOR COIN COUNTING MACHINES Filed April 28. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet l IN VEN TOR BY A W ATTORNEY Feb. 7, 1933.

E. P. DONNELLAN COIN GUIDING AND WRAPPER HOLDING MEANS FOR COIN COUNTING MACHINES Filed April 28. 1931 2 sheets-sheet 2 ATTORNE Patented Feb. 7, 1933i UNITED STATES PATENT oFFic-E EDWARD P. DONNELLAN, or BROOKLYN, NEW YonnnssIGNon rro s'rANnARDJoHNsoN COMPANY, ING., or BRooxLYN, NEW YORK, A cortrona'rroN or NEW YORK s Y YCOIN GUIDING AND WRAPPER HOLDING Application filed April 28,

This application is a continuation in part of my copending application Ser. No. 408,187, filed November 19th, 1929; and the sanierelates to improvements in coin guiding and Wrapper holding means for coin counting machines.4

This invention has for its principalobject to provide, for use in connection withcoin counting machines having means to separate coins of different denominations and deliver the separated coins respectively to `Counting mechanism forgiven correspond.- ing denominations, a novel arrangement and construction of means to removably hold tubular wrappers corresponding to the different denominations of coins subject to the deposit therein of counted coins discharged from the counting mechanism, together with guide means to lead said discharged coins to the thus held wrappers.

This invention has for another object tov provide a novel coin guiding and Wrapper Y holding means adapted to be detachably connected with the coin counting machine served V thereby. l

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be understood from the following detailed description of the same. Y

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown on the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. 1 is in part a side elevation and in part a vertical sectional view 'of a coin counting machine equipped with the novel coin guiding and wrapper holding means of this invention; and Fig. 2 is in part a front elevation and in part a transverse vertical section, taken on line 2-2 in said Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference are em- Y 'usual graduated drop out opening 12 thereof, which functionsv to discharge coins of MEANS Eon G01N COUNTING MACHTNES 1931. '.Serial No. 533,400.

differentv denominations according to their' quarters and4 half dollars. `These chute'lilrel passages are formed inconnection with a transverse back-plate 18extending between the sides of the support 10. Y Connected with and forwardly projecting from the sides ofthe support 10 is ahousing 19 adapted to contain thevcoin counting registersv (not shown), which correspondin number to the number'o-f denominations of coins the machine. is arranged to operate with. VEach coin counting register is provided lWith an actuating shaft 2()v having a coin engageable star wheel21 for operating the same. The sta-r Wheels 21 respectively lie in` the pathof the coins moving through the respective chute-likevpassages 13 to 17 inclusive. n Y d Cooperating with each chute-like passage 13 to 17 inclusive, and locatediadjacent to said star-wheel 21 are suitably driven propellingV rolls 22, which `are adapted to engage coins passingthrough said chute-like passages so as to positively force the same past the star-wheelsv21 with actuating effect upon the latter, and through the same 'upon the operating shafts 2O of the coin counting registers. Suitable means for stoppingthe machine when aV given predetermined num# ber of coins of any denomination have been counted and registered, such,l for example,

asthe means shown'and described for such purpose in my l Ser. No. 408,187. y

The novel Ameans for removably support'- ing tubular papervcoin wrappers 23 and'for guidingcoins thereinto which are discharged .from said chute-like passages'l to 17 inclusive, after thesamehave actuated aproper coin counting register, comprises the following structure. ,Y l y, A detachable carrier-frame is provided, the

same comprising a back wall 24, bottom wallV l25 `and side Walls 26; the carrier-frame thus formedgthereby being open atthe front. Said said copending application side walls 26 are provided on their exterior sides with hanger flanges 27 which are removably slidable in holding channels or ways 28 formed in the inner faces of sides of said housing 19. Pivotally mounted on the eXterior faces of said side walls 26, below the hanger flang`es27, are locking ecoentrics 28, which serve, when manipulated, to bind the hanger flanges 27 in the holding channels or ways 28, thus firmly and securely retainf means and in the manner about to be described. 'Y

Forme/d in connection with said back wall 24,k at the lower ends respectively of the lchute- A like passages 13 to 17 i inclusive, are rearwardly off-set wrapper seating sockets 29 of substantially semi-,circular internal cross sectional shape and respectively sized to conform to the Vdimensions of the wrappers 23 to be served thereby. The'rearwardly olf-set relation of said seating sockets 29 provide stop shoulders 30 to determine the seated relation of the wrappers in connection with the chutelike passages 13 to 17 inclusive. Cooperative with said sockets 29 aresocketcover lli) TSO

portions 31 of outwardly bowed semi-circular 'contour and of curvilinear internal conformation, so as to provide at their upper or top portions funnel-like coin receiving mouths `32, and so as to 'provide at their lower or bottom portions bell-shaped receiving sockets 33 to receive insertion of the upper open ends kof the tubular wrappers 23, whereby said ends are guided 'toward and brought into stopped engagement with the stop shoulders 30.V Said socket cover portions31 are pref- 'e'rably formed in connection with'a carrying bar 34, which is secured in assembled relation to the body or boss 35 in which the wrapper seating sockets 29vare formed by means of fastening screws 36 or other suitable fastening means. f f i V To removably hold the tubular wrappers 23 in the wrapper seating sockets 29 and 'stopped against the stop shoulders 30, while at the same time closing "the bottom ends 'o f said wrappers in support of coins delivered thereinto, spring-pressed plungers 37 are provided.V These plungers are lslidab'ly movable vthrough the bottom wall 25 of 'the 4carrier frame. Secured upon the upper ends of said plungers are plugs 38 adapted to enter and fit within the lower ends of the Wrappers 23, said plugs 38 having annular flanges 39 at their lower ends to engage and thrust upon the lower end of engaged wrappers 23. The plungers 37 and their flanged plugs 38 are yeldably and upwardly biased by springs 40 which surround the plungers between the carrier frame bottom wall 25 and the flanged plugs 38. The lower ends of said plungers, which proj ect beneath the carrier frame bottom .wall 25, are provided with linger pieces 41 for retracting the plungers to permit insertion or removal of wrappers as necessary.

:Pivotally connected with the upper end po-rtions of the ksides of the carrier frame is a cover plate 42 adapted to normally'overlie and cover the chute-like passages 13 to 17 inclusive. At the lower exterior portion of said cover plate 42l is affixed a finger piece 43 for manipulating the same. A spring clip 44 is fixed to the carrying bar -34 to frictionally engage the free end of said cover plate so as to normally retain the same in its closed position;v yIt will be obvious vthat said cover plate may be raised at will to give access to the interior of said chute-like passages 13 to 17 inclusive should necessity arise. Normally the coverplate closes the open front sides of said ychute-like passages against abnormal escape of coins Vpassing therethrough.

Preparatory to operation of the machine, the tubular 4wrappers 23 for the different ydenominations `of coin are inserted in proper positions in the carrier frame so that `their upper open ends are held in registration with properly corresponding lchute-like passages 13 to 17 inclusive. The lower ends ofthe wrappers 23 are annularly crimped to form a stop bead'23 to retain the coins within the wrapper. 1 Y

Vh'en any particular wrapper receives its quota of counted coins, the Amachine through 'the functioning of its clutch release mechan-ism of the general kind described in my aforesaid copending application. Ser. No. 408,187, is stopped, whereupon the operator removesthe filled wr-apper by pullingv down A the plunger 37 to release its open end from the lengaged Wrapper seating socket 29 rand stop shoulder 30thereupon lifting the filled wrapper off of the engaged plug 38, and then turning in .the open wrapper end in holding engagement with the stack of coins therein. A new wrapper is replaced for the thus removed filled wrapper, and the machine is again started 'until anothenwr'apper is filled, whereupon the operations are repeated, etc. `As many Achanges could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention vcould be' made without departing from lftihelscope thereof, itis intended ythat rallmatcoin counting machines, comprising a carrier frame, means to detachably connect said carrier frame to the machine, said carrier frame having guide chute means to receive counted coins discharged by the kmachine, wrapper seating means aligned with said guide chute means, said seating means being olset relative to said chute means to provide a stop shoulder at the juncture thereof engageable by upper open ends of wrappers disposed in said seating means, and a spring biased retractable means to engage lower ends of the thus disposed wrappers to releasably retain the upper ends thereof engaged with said stop shoulder.

2. A tubular wrapper holding means for coin counting machines, comprising a carrier frame, said carrier frame having a series of passageways in its upper portion corresponding to and adapted to receive counted coins of different denominations discharged by the machine, a wrapper supporting seating means aligned with each passageway, said seating means being laterally olif-set relative to said passageways, to provide stop shoulders to engage and position the open ends of inserted wrappers in registration with the cooperating passageways, and spring biased retractable means aligned with each seating means toengagethelower end ofinsertedwrappers to releasably retain the same in place,said latter means each having a plug to enter the lower end of an engaged wrapper to space entered coins from the lower extremity of the latter and also having a lateral annular flange to support the lower extremity of said wrapper.

having annular flanges to support the lower extremity of engaged wrappers.

4. A tubular wrapper holding means as defined in claim 2, in which said carrier frame is provided with a displaceable cover-plate to normally close over said chute-like passages.

5. A tubular wrapper holding means as de-v `fined in claim 3, in which said carried frame is providedV with a displaceable cover plate to normally close over said chute-like passages. Y

6. A tubular wrapper holding means as denedin claim 2, in which the carrier frame is provided with means for detachably connecting the same with a coin counting machine to be served thereby.

, 7 A tubular wrapper holding means as defined in claim 3, in which the vcarrier frame is provided with means for detachably connecting the same with a coin counting machine to'be served thereby.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of April, 1981. y

EDWARD?. DONNELLAN.

3. A tubular wrapper holding means for Y coin counting machines, comprising a carrier frame, said carrier frame having a series of passageways in its upper portion corresponding to and adapted to receive counted coins of diiierent denominations discharged by the machine, wrapper seating means having vertical seating channels of semi-circular cross section aligned respectively with said respective passageways and off-set relative thereto to provide a stop-shoulder to engage the upper ends of wrappers inserted therein, outwardly bowed semi-circular cover members fixed across the upper ends of said seating channels and forming with the latter circular sockets to embrace the upper ends of inserted wrappers, said seating channels and cover members being correspondingly sized according to the diameters of wrappers for coins of different denominations, and spring biased Y 

